UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU

Re:UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU by hocuspocus on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @09:03AM (#13985713)

The UK is putting itself in a much tougher situation, this is absolutely not comparable to Switzerland and Norway.

And some of the forecasts about Switzerland turned out very real. We have to agree and comply with Europe on most things, without much bargaining power. And the EURCHF swings can literally put businesses to the ground overnight.

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Re:UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU by folli on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @01:41PM (#13988739)

This could also be construed as the EU acting as a hegemony and abusing their economic power to force smaller countries to accept their terms. The same can be currently observed when some EU exponents demand that the Brits get punished for pulling out.

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Re:UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU by prodmerc on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @03:07PM (#13989556)

Yeah, no shit, that's the whole point of a strong economic union.

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Re:UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU by cat199 on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @04:12PM (#13990126)

And for breaking out of one..

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Re:UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU by Scarblac on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @04:09PM (#13990098)

It's almost as if its own interests come first.

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